Crime and Society: Readings in History and Theory

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Mike Fitzgerald, Gregor McLennan, Jennie Pawson
Routledge, Dec 16, 2003 - Social Science - 516 pages
First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
 

Contents

Introduction
2
1 Property authority and the criminal law
5
2 Popular attitudes to the law in the eighteenth century
24
3 The ideological origins of the penitentiary
31
4 Towards a national standard of police
50
police reform and popular resistance in Northern England 184057
71
6 Policing the workingclass city
95
the case of the early Factory Acts
109
12 Vagrancy and delinquency in an urban setting
164
Introduction
181
a further report on criminology and the sociology of deviance in Britain
183
some models of criminology
206
the search for the criminal personality
261
16 Social disorganisation theories
286
the genesis of crime
311
affinity and affiliation theories
337

8 A visit to the rookery of St Giles and its neighbourhood
121
9 On the number of costermongers and other street folk
132
10 The threat of outcast London
143
11 The street children of London
156
19 The person and group reality
359
20 Law class and control
385
Index
417

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